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Walter Rathenau (1867-1922)
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Walter Rathenau (1867-1922)

, Gerard Swope formed the international corporate- socialism triumvirate of the early-20c. Rathenau's Owen YoungManaging director of AEG (German General Electric); German Foreign Minister 1922 (assassinated June 24, 1922 by the Organisation Consul nationalist conspiracy). Per Sutton WSRH Ch 10: Rathenau, The New Political Economy: "the new economy will be no state or governmental economy but a private economy committed to a civic power of resolution which certainly will require state cooperation." Sutton's structural reading: this is "national socialism" — the state subordinated to private corporate purposes — which Hitler operationalized in radicalized form 1933+. (Claim SUT-WSRH-007.)